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You're a performer in sport. It doesn't matter what sport, at what level or how old you are. Everyone needs and can develop mental toughness to enhance their performance.

Mental toughness is not what you think. It's actually a heavily researched and successfully implemented concept that is evolving all the time. 

It has perfect applications in sport and when you have developed this vital mindset, you will experience increases in performance that you only could have dreamed off before.

This online course is comprehensive, gives you lots of practical tools and regularly asks you to reflect and challenge your thinking. Work through it at your own pace (your access does not expire) and make sure you carry out the reflections and practical activities as that's what will make the difference!

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Some useful stuff to know at the start

Welcome to Mental Toughness tools for Sports Athletes

To introduce you to the course and say hello

Who am I?

To let you know more about Steve Dent

Why you really need this course?

To make you aware of why mental toughness is important to you

Course format and learning outcomes

To give you more information on what the course covers and how it is structured

Course Workbook to download

To make the course workbook available to you.

Mental Toughness in Sport

What is mental toughness?

To introduce you to the concept of mental toughness

10 Facts about Mental Toughness in Sport

To make you aware of how mental toughness benefits sports athletes

The 4C's of mental toughness

To introduce you to the model of mental toughness that the course is based upon

Mental Toughness & Control

To explore high control and what you need to do to demonstrate it

Mental Toughness & Commitment

To explore high commitment and what you need to do to demonstrate it

Mental Toughness & Challenge

To explore high challenge and what you need to do to demonstrate it

Mental Toughness & Confidence

To explore high confidence and what you need to do to demonstrate it

Pressure?...that's an inside job!

There's no such thing as pressure

To explore where 'pressure' comes from

How we create our experiences in life and sport

To identify why we experience things in sport that are different to others

How we create our experiences in life and sport

To identify why we experience things in sport that are different to others

Pay attention to your thoughts - TARGET Strategy

To introduce the TARGET strategy

Task - Pay attention to your thoughts

To practice the TARGET strategy and to reflect on the results

How we create our experiences in life and sport Copy

To identify why we experience things in sport that are different to others

The only Moment that Matters in Sport

Where do you perform?

To highlight the importance of getting present in sport

Step into your 'Batman'

To introduce you to the concept of an 'Alter Ego' for sport

Your Ideal Competitive Mindset

To identify the mindset of your 'Alter Ego'

Switching on your Ideal Competitive Mindset

To explore ways to switch on the mindset of your 'Alter Ego'

Imagine that?

Mental Imagery - what is it?

To explore the concept of mental imagery for sport

Mental Imagery - what is it?

The process of Mental Imagery

To help you recognise how to do mental imagery to get the best out of the practice

Mental Imagery Practice - the lemon

To practice mental imagery

Mental Imagery Practice - the powerful magnet

To practice mental imagery

Mental Imagery Practice - the arm extension

To practice mental imagery

Mental Imagery Practice - the iron bar

To practice mental imagery

Mental Imagery Practice - the Rollercoaster

To practice mental imagery in two different ways

Practicing mental imagery - next level stuff

To take mental imagery to the next level

Mindful Breathing

To identify how using your breath can help you in your sport

Anchoring Useful Emotional States

To explore how to anchor emotional states

Language and Sport

How our language impacts our performance?

To recognise how our language impacts your performance in sport

Sport and our senses

To identify your preferred representational system

The Power of our Words in Sport

To recognise the language you use that can help or hinder your performance

How we filter success

To recognise and explore the filters you use that can help or hinder your performance

Reframing your experience for improved results

To provide you with help to reframe how you experience situations in your sport

Use your language to enhance your performance

To help you use different language and filters to experience situations in a more helpful way

Downloadable 4C's strategies for improving performance

Strategies to enhance your performance

The Principles of Success

To identify the core principles of success in for approaching your sport

Overcoming Setbacks

To explore how to get past setbacks and thrive

Confidence in Abilities - Changing your narrative

To help you change the stories that you tell yourself that hinder your performance

Are you OK? - How you perceive yourself and others in sport

To explore when you perceive yourself or others as either OK or not OK and what you can do about it.

Identifying your sources of stress

To recognise what creates unhelpful emotions in sport

Controlling your environment

To explore what you can and can't control in your sport

TARGET strategy

To introduce the TARGET strategy for sport

Breathing techniques for Sport

To explore useful breathing techniques than can help you control nerves and anxiety

Results v Excuses

To identify the excuses you are using for not getting the results you want

Setting powerful intentions - PACER

To identify how to set clear and meaningful outcomes in your sport

Sticky Habits

To build good habits by sticking them to your current habits

What's Next?

Thank you

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